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October 17, 2007
A Tour of Park Slope
The Cooperator
The Co-op & Condo Monthy
By Anthony Stoeckert
Looking toward the future, Atlantic Yards takes center stage in a historical overview of Park Slope from a residential real estate perspective.
A big project that will certainly make news in Brooklyn for the next few years is developer Bruce Ratner’s proposed complex that will bring the NBA’s New Jersey Nets to Brooklyn, and along with the team, even more restaurants, shops, and residential and professional buildings to the borough.
The Park Slope Civic Council (which has been around for more than 100 years and was known as the South Brooklyn Board of Trade until it changed its name in 1960) is following the development’s progress. Miskel says the group doesn’t have any legislative power, but that “we can be an annoying thorn in their side.”
The Ratner project, according to Miskel, would be “on the border” of Park Slope, so the council is committed to being aware of how the complex could affect The Slope.
“It’s not that it’s on us, but certainly with traffic, overloading facilities, storage and all that, it’s going to affect us,” he says. “And at some point, he may go over further into Third or Fifth Avenue. That’s looking into the future.”
Posted by lumi at October 17, 2007 9:01 AM